Readme for �Still �the Domain of Men�? Gender Quotas and Women�s Inclusion in Local Politics in Italy�

Ana Catalano Weeks, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Politics, University of Bath, ORCID: 0000-0003-1394-8223

Francesco Masala, Library Researcher at the House of Commons, London, United Kingdom

Replication code 
1. Weeks_Masala_LSQ_Replication_Code_2022.R
This code will read in the data files listed below and reproduce the analysis. 

Codebook 
1. Weeks_Masala_LSQ_Codebook.PDF
This codebook contains a list of all variables in the analysis datasets with variable descriptions, values, and value labels for all values. 

Data files
1. wm_bill_level.RData � dataset used for bill-level analysis (data to replicate Tables 2 and 3)
2. wm_region_level.RData � dataset used for region-level analysis (data to replicate Figures 1 and 2, Table 1, Table 5, Figure A1, Tables A1 �A3)
3. wm_individual_level.RData � dataset used for individual councillor-level analysis (data to replicate Table 4, Figure A2)
Software
Results produced using (base) R version 4.1.2. The following packages are required to replicate figures and tables in the paper: 

ggplot2
gmodels
stargazer
aod
